Centurion+ Patent Holders as of April 2, 2024

Muthiah Manoharan
Oligonucleotide Chemist for Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics.
Dr. Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan serves as a Senior Vice President of Drug Innovation, a Scientific Advisory Board Member, and a Distinguished Research Scientist at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
In 2003, he was the first chemist hired at Alnylam and built the Drug Discovery team at Alnylam. Muthiah and his team pioneered the discovery and development of the chemical modifications that make RNA interference-based human therapeutics possible. This work led to ONPATTRO (patisiran), the first RNAi therapeutic approved by FDA in 2018 for treating TTR amyloidosis mediated polyneuropathy.
Patent №: 11944687 (April 2, 2024) – Carbohydrate conjugate RNA agents and process for their preparation. This disclosure relates to an improved process for preparing carbohydrate conjugates, and carbohydrate-conjugated iRNA agents derived from these conjugates, offering enhanced purity and facilitating the in vivo delivery of iRNA agents.

Arun Ramaswamy
Software and data engineering, AI/ML, digital transformation and automation.
Tech leadership in media measurement, Ad Tech, Media and Retail analytics.

Patent №: 11948588 (April 2, 2024) – Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide secondary content in association with primary broadcast media content. Disclosed methods involve accessing a secondary content schedule based on watermarks detected in primary media content, identifying secondary content items and their associated time values. These values are compared to current time values from a clock to determine whether to present a secondary content item. Finally, the method causes a media presentation device to display the selected secondary content item according to the schedule.

Iskander Farooq
Supervisor – Group Leader at Ford Motor Company.

Patent №: 11945395 (April 2, 2024) – Vehicle airbag system. A vehicle has a bulkhead along an axis, supporting a base inflatable from a stowed to a deployed position. An airbag on the base inflates away from the bulkhead and base to an inflated position, with extensions along the vehicle’s longitudinal axis, spaced apart from each other.
Patent №: 11945391 (April 2, 2024) – Vehicle airbag system. A vehicle has a body with a roof and a pillar, and a track supported by the roof, elongated along a cross-vehicle axis. A headliner slides along the track from a stowed to a deployed position, extending along the roof when stowed and along the pillar when deployed.
Patent №: 11945295 (April 2, 2024) – Electric-vehicle battery restraint. An assembly comprises a rocker elongated along a vehicle longitudinal axis, with a first and second slider supported by it, spaced apart along the axis. Two actuators slide each slider laterally along an axis. A cable connects the first slider to the second.

Scott D Miles
Innovator. Product Developer.
Serial start-up product development entrepreneur. Five successful start-up companies.
Founder and CEO of product development/start-up incubator firm.
Patent №: 11944531 (April 2, 2024) – Devices, systems, and methods for repairing soft tissue and attaching soft tissue to bone. Devices, systems, and/or methods for repairing soft tissue involve a repair device with a capture portion and an anchor portion. The capture portion extends with radial portions, while the anchor portion has a base with multiple legs. These legs move from a linear to a formed position, coupling to the capture portion’s structure.

Patent №: 11944279 (April 2, 2024) – Saliva assessing method, device, and system. Various embodiments of a swab device, system, and method are provided for assessing saliva flow. A system includes a swab device with a handle, a swab portion for collecting saliva, and a measuring device to measure the collected saliva. The measuring device has a nesting portion to receive the handle portion of the swab device for measurement.